#HorrorForLibraries Giveaway: Women in Horror Month Week 4

Today on the giveaway I am celebrating Women's History Month with a giveaway each Thursday this month of books written by women in Horror. I am focusing on books I did not get a chance to review officially, but are titles I think belong in every public library. Today is our last week and I have two finished copies of great books for 1 winner. Details below but first, here are the rules on how to enter:

1. You need to be affiliated with an American Library. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.
2. If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.
3. Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm each week will be considered for that week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
4. If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.

Last week's winner was Claudia from TX. Now on to this week's giveaway. 

Today I have a finished copy of a book I just missed when it came out. I am really sad about it because the author had a previous book which I LOVED and STILL THINK ABOUT [The Taxidermist's Lover]. This book is Myrrh by Polly Hall. From the description:

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to stop the goblin within in this kaleidoscopic dark psychological horror, with a dread-inducing climax you will never forget. Perfect for fans of Eric LaRocca and Catriona Ward. 

Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she's done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. 

Cayenne is trapped in a loveless marriage, the distance between her and her husband growing further and further each day. Longing for a child, she has visions promising her a baby. 

As Myrrh's frustrations grow, the goblin in her grows louder and louder, threatening to tear apart the few relationships she holds dear and destroy everything around her. When Cayenne finds her husband growing closer to his daughter, Cayenne's stepdaughter, pushing her further out of his life, she makes a decision that sends her into a terrible spiral. 

The stories of these women will unlock a past filled with dark secrets, strange connections; all leading to an unforgettable, horrific climax.

Titan Books sent me this finished, hard cover copy for me to give to one of you to add to your library. And even if you don't win, it is not too late to add this book. It will be new to your readers. 

My second title is a second finished copy of a book I also gave away last week, by an author whose work I have spotlighted before from a small Horror press you can trust. Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories by Elizabeth Broadbent:

Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment.

Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as anyone can remember.

For the first time, Undertaker Books has collected Elizabeth Broadbent’s intertwined Southern Gothic stories, including her linked novella, Ink Vine. Swamp witches and standing stones, battered mansions and shoeless patriarchs, strip clubs and roadside diners—Lower Congaree blossoms with the otherworldly, the bizarre, the outcast and the outside of time.

Ink Vine 

 “A stunning debut with a narrative voice so strong, you’ll feel the swamp breathing down your neck. Eerie and very moving.” —Tim McGregor, author of Eynhallow and Wasps in the Ice Cream

When exotic dancer Emmy Joiner escapes to the swamp, she meets beautiful, long-legged Zara, the first girl she dares to kiss. But the small-town South hates a woman who dares to dance instead of plucking chickens for minimum wage. As Emmy’s life falls apart, her relationship with Zara grows more tangled and bizarre. Zara’s offering something beautiful. Its price may be more than Emmy’s willing to pay.

I love how these are interconnected stories but also-- SWAMP stories are very popular, even with non-horror readers. This collection reminds me a lot of Alan Baxter's Tales from the Gulp series. I had a review of the third book in this series of connected novellas, The Rise, in the February 2026 issue of Booklist. 

This is a finished copy of the book which came out on March 6th. You can add it to your collection right now. Thanks to Undertaker Books for this copy which will go out with the finished hardcover of Myrrh to one winner.

And that concludes my Women in Horror Month Giveaways. Four weeks, eight books, four winners. Next week I will begin giving away the books for which I have reviews in the April issues of both Booklist and Library Journal. It will take a few weeks, and there are some great titles, including one of my under the radar picks for a top book of the year.

Enter now and you are entered going forward. 

Good Luck!